Laura Ness: Wines are better than ever

And what a happy dilemma it is

11:38 PM,
Dec. 6, 2013

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Laura Ness

As the end of December comes ever closer, wine journalists go a little bit batty trying to figure out their top picks of the year. Depending on which publication they write for, they could taste hundreds, even thousands of wines over the course of twelve months. It's a lot more work than you might think. It's even punishing sometimes. I'm in the middle of writing a zinfandel feature right now. I'd like to pass that onto anybody who likes zin more than I do which is pretty much everybody. But I digress. I was talking specifically about the "Top 100" wine list from Jon Bonne of the SF Chronicle. He ...